How to remove mate-screensaver-dbg from Debian Unstable (Sid)

Uninstall mate-screensaver-dbg

To remove just mate-screensaver-dbg package itself from Debian Unstable (Sid) execute on terminal:

sudo apt-get remove mate-screensaver-dbg

Uninstall mate-screensaver-dbg and it's dependent packages

To remove the mate-screensaver-dbg package and any other dependant package which are no longer needed from Debian Sid.

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove mate-screensaver-dbg

Purging mate-screensaver-dbg

If you also want to delete configuration and/or data files of mate-screensaver-dbg from Debian Sid then this will work:

sudo apt-get purge mate-screensaver-dbg

To delete configuration and/or data files of mate-screensaver-dbg and it's dependencies from Debian Sid then execute:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove mate-screensaver-dbg

More information about apt-get remove

Advanced Package Tool, or APT, is a free software user interface that works with core libraries to handle the installation and removal of software on Debian, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. APT simplifies the process of managing software on Unix-like computer systems by automating the retrieval, configuration and installation of software packages, either from precompiled files or by compiling source code.

apt-get is the command-line tool for handling packages, and may be considered the user's "back-end" to other tools using the APT library.

apt-get remove is identical to install except that packages are removed instead of installed. Note that removing a package leaves its configuration files on the system. If a plus sign is appended to the package name (with no intervening space), the identified package will be installed instead of removed.